Some Primary 6/7 pupils have been using different types of construction materials to create interesting shapes during Golden Time.  Here are a few examples:

“A snowflake” using K’Nex

“A lady” using Magnets

“Miss Welsh” using K’Nex

“A ballerina” using magnets

“Oshanne” using K’Nex

This week we have been reading more of our class novel- The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark.  For technology, we made our own owls with wings that flap- we used split pins to attach the wings to the body and they could move.

We have also done some work on Wallace and Bruce and we were looking at their Coats of Arms and we’re colouring in shields in the correct colours.

We have had visitors in our classroom this week- Mrs Gibson joined us for writing on Wednesday and Mrs Gardinier was with us on Friday morning.  We were doing LEGO Maths with her and we were adding the dots on pieces together to reach target numbers. We worked on our own and in teams to find the answers.

This term as part of our P.E lessons, we are learning about Hockey.  Today we learned the correct way to hold a hockey stick and played some games to practise our stick handling skills.  One of our favourites was called ‘Squeeze Ball’, where we had to work with a partner to ‘squeeze’ the ball between our sticks and lift if off the ground to waist height – we soon discovered that it wasn’t as easy as it sounded!!

Here are some pictures of us at work:

We have four new house captains for this session and they are:

Mel Finlayson- Wallace

David Jenkins – Bruce

Rebecca Watt – Stewart

Paige Walker – MacGregor

Ben and Beth have Stuart and Zoe to support them in their roles this year as they were elected to be Depute Head Boy and Depute Head Girl.  They will be busy with a number of different duties this year that will help to support the school to be the best it can be!

During Reflection Time Primary 6/7 identified some fantastic things that they had learned or achieved this week and thought of some targets to work on next week.

Achievements:

1.  Drama.  We worked as a team to pull together power-points for our countries adverts.  We talked to others in our group and made decisions together. We will put our adverts up when they are finished.

2.  Pre-topic Discussion: We bounced ideas off each other to come up with what we knew about The Highland Clearances and some questions we would like answered.

3.  Focusing on our work: We have been keeping our heads down and not stopped working.  This makes us feel happy so we can move onto other things.  We feel fantastic and enjoy the feeling of being finished.  We feel confident.

Targets:

1.  Get better/quieter when doing transitions between activities in class.

2.  Get better at finding information on the Internet when doing research.

We have started our topic about Mary Queen of Scots.  To give us some insight into what life was like when she was alive, we have been finding out about clothes, housing and transport in the 16th Century.

We did a Critical Skills Challenge in groups to build a 3D model of a Peasant’s house from the 16th Century.  We had to combine what we had been learning in our topic with the technology skills we had been learning about – strengthening techniques in model-making.

Here are our finished models:

By Katie, Matthew & Kieran

By Brooke, Madyson & Robbie G

By Robbie B, Sarah & Gabriela

By Kuba, Shayne & Natasha

By Brad, Erin & Leah

By Jessica, Leon & Alexandra